Survival kits for my stressed out MA's

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I am the only leader of a team at a private practice. I work alongside 11 attendings/specialty MDs. Ihave approx 25 MA's below me, who are all older than me. Next week, our private facility is being "bought-out" by a major hospital/league coorp. The MA's are having to learn a new computer system, a new scheduling and registration system and continue with their work load. I would like, as their team leader and only RN at the practice to bring ina survival kit for them all for "go-live" day. Any thoughts, poems, nurse/ma related lines and ideas would be really appreciated!

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M&Ms and patience. When we transitioned to EMR they actually lightened our schedule by 25% for that week, then slowly build back up to a normal load (by "slowly" I mean two days). If the schedule could be a little lighter that would help tremendously. Make sure you're familiar with it or know who to ask if someone has an issue that you can't handle.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Emergency, CEN.

Wow that's very nice of you! I don't have any fantastic ideas or anything. Recently my nurse manager had touched me by getting everyone a small card for Nurse's Week/Day with our names on them and a nice message with some kind of compliment in it.

It wasn't expensive, but it made me feel like she put thought into people as individuals, not just bodies to fill the schedule.

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